Publications

The write-up of our top performing participation at the SMART Challenge of the 2020 International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC ’20) is now available online.

We got the following papers accepted at CIKM’20:

• Generating Categories for Sets of Entities by Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog, and Jamie Callan (full paper) [PDF]
• Truth be Told: Fake News Detection Using User Reactions on Reddit by Vinay Setty and Erlend Rekve (poster paper) [PDF]
• ArXivDigest: A Living Lab for Personalized Scientific Literature Recommendation by Kristian Gingstad, Øyvind Jekteberg, and Krisztian Balog (demo paper) [PDF]
• IAI MovieBot: A Conversational Movie Recommender System by Javeria Habib, Shuo Zhang, and Krisztian Balog (demo paper) [PDF]
• Neural (Knowledge Graph) Question Answering Using Synthetic Training Data by Trond Linjordet (doctoral consortium) [PDF]

Sanitizing Synthetic Training Data Generation for Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs by Trond Linjordet and Krisztian Balog has been accepted as a full paper at the ICTIR conference [PDF].

Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems via User Simulation by Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog has been accepted as a full paper at the KDD conference. [PDF]

Earlier today, Shuo Zhang has presented a paper on Novel Entity Discovery from Web Tables at The Web Conference 2020, which was a result of his internship at Bloomberg AI [PDF]. The work has also been discussed at the Tech at Bloomberg blog.

We got the following contributions accepted at SIGIR’20:

• Summarizing and Exploring Tabular Data in Conversational Search by Shuo Zhang, Zhuyun Dai, Krisztian Balog, and Jamie Callan (short paper)
• BRENDA: Browser Extension for Fake News Detection by Bjarte Botnevik, Eirik Sakariassen, and Vinay Setty (demo)
• REL: An Entity Linker Standing on the Shoulders of Giants by Johannes M. van Hulst, Faegheh Hasibi, Koen Dercksen, Krisztian Balog, and Arjen P. de Vries (demo)

Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation: A Survey by Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog has been published in ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. [PDF]

Efficient Continuous Multi-Query Processing over Graph Streams by Lefteris Zervakis, Vinay Setty, Christos Tryfonopoulos, and Katja Hose has been accepted as a full paper at the EDBT conference. [PDF]

A Comparative Study for Unsupervised Network Representation Learning by Megha Khosla, Vinay Setty, and Avishek Anand has been published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering [PDF].

We presented the following papers at ICTIR this year:

• SADHAN: Hierarchical Attention Networks to Learn Latent Aspect Embeddings for Fake News Detection (full paper) by Rahul Mishra and Vinay Setty [PDF]
• Unsupervised Context Retrieval for Long-tail Entities (short paper) by Darío Garigliotti, Dyaa Albakour, Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, and Krisztian Balog [PDF]